A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

Persian New Year is celebrated in many countries across the world. Here’s everything you need to know, including what to cook ...

Uzbekistan has a large Uyghur community, and the Turkic languages spoken by Uzbeks and Uyghurs are mutually intelligible. Sofiya offers them fried ($19.99) or in soup ($16.99).

A people who shaped Turkish literature through their poets, performed their worship in Turkish, and preserved their language, ...

Projects are dead and surveillance is omnipresent in Xinjiang, which once lured Western companies such as Volkswagen.

“And (it’s) everybody’s favorite food, not only Xinjiang, in the Middle Asia, also Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, all the -stans, all the people know about the laghman.” Laghman, a traditional Uyghur dish ...

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Georgia. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have banned public celebrations of the festival. Despite Chinese government attempts to stop it, it is also ...

Uyghur separatist groups have consistently supported the Taliban in their two-decade-long fight for control of Afghanistan, but increased Chinese presence in the country is altering the status quo ...

Although Uzbekistan has effectively eliminated large-scale state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest, ongoing government influence over certain aspects of the country’s agricultural ...